[Coworking] Re: What has been trend at your coworking space?

2015-01-04 Thread Jeannine
It is not that we don't accept them, it is that they are not really the people we are looking for. If there is room, drop ins are of course welcome, and there is pretty much always room. But the relationship between digital nomads and a coworking space often amounts to mutual efforts at

Re: [Coworking] Re: What has been trend at your coworking space?

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hillman
The natural trends definitely seems pretty consistent - mid-week seems to be the highest use, which I’ve been able to connect to the feeling of either  1 - “Well shit, my week is halfway over and I still have a full week’s worth of work to do. better get somewhere more productive” or 2 -

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hillman
Turns out that surveys are terrible for collecting this kind of information :) I’ve had to do a lot of more hands on work to find real, valuable information.  I’ve used some of my findings to help fuel other articles, like this one in the Philadelphia Biz Journal (I pubilished the full

[Coworking] Educating the coworking illiterate...

2015-01-04 Thread M.E. Ralph
I opened a small business center in November of 2012 after quitting a full time job as an operations manager at a large office supply retailer. I chose a business center because of the numerous inquiries I received at my former job for such services. A year and a half later I came across an

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-04 Thread Zach Wade
I also would be very interested in the results. Thank you On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:14:37 PM UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: I'm sure I'm not the only person on this group who has google alerts set up for the words coworking and, sigh, co-working. Between the number of new space

[Coworking] Exciting Site

2015-01-04 Thread Bev C
Joining the conversation todaylooking for ideas, guidance and all that you have experienced! Olive Hill Community Economic Development Corporation, Inc is a non-profit operating a Public Computer Center as one of its' four components. Will be launching Coworking Space as part of our

[Coworking] Re: Introducing new AltamontCowork owner

2015-01-04 Thread brian
Thanks for the intro, Mike! Very excited to be on the inside to hear from others and collaborate.coworking style! :) Brian 209-221-9699 br...@zerobsgroup.com On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:11:30 PM UTC-8, AltamontCowork wrote: Hi allhope you are having a Happy Holiday season I

[Coworking] Re: Erasmus Plus Partner Search

2015-01-04 Thread İbrahim Taşer
Hello, I am İbrahim from Karaman, Turkey. I am an English teacher in the ministry of education. However, last two years, I am only working in the field of creating and coordinating of the Erasmus+ projects. I have many contacts from Turkey and also Europe. I would like to create more projects

[Coworking] Re: Coworking for moms in Brazil - crowdfunding

2015-01-04 Thread Kristin (aka StrawberryTech)
How is this going?? On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:38:21 PM UTC-8, casadeviver wrote: Hello! Some weeks ago I wrote here about a coworking space for moms, dads and kids in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We found a house that was absolutely perfect to shelter this dream, so along with two other

[Coworking] Any Parent Co-working spaces yet?

2015-01-04 Thread Kristin Bennett
I know here in Seattle Ellies was trying to open a space for parents, have any other spaces been able to open that provide help for parents (ie childcare?)? I have been on pause hoping Ellies would work out but I'm wondering if anyones successfully done this yet? I did see the post about

Re: [Coworking] Re: Starting a new coworking space while employed fulltime

2015-01-04 Thread Alex Hillman
One other question regarding the startup - any thoughts on investors vs sponsors vs no outside capital? http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/09/how-to-fund-your-coworking-space/ probably my most popular article is on this topic. With that said…. I’m pretty sure I can count the

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-04 Thread Steve King
We haven't looked at coworking facility failure rates lately. When we last looked, back in 2010, the failure rate seemed to be around 30%-40% within 2-3 years of opening. This is higher than the average failure rate for small businesses, but not by much. I'll hunt around a bit and

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-04 Thread M.E. Ralph
I don't know if my information would be of use to you but I do thank you for starting this topic. I opened a business center/internet cafe' back in November of 2012. I had previously worked in retail as an operations manager and saw a need for this through many inquiries received at my work.

Re: [Coworking] My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

2015-01-04 Thread Jerome Chang
I operated for nearly 3-4 years before more than 20% of the people knew the concept, “coworking”. Go back to your business plan/model, and communicate the essence of that. If it can’t be explained so simply in 1-2 sentences or that others can reiterate for you, then it isn’t simple and

Re: [Coworking] Re: Erasmus Plus Partner Search

2015-01-04 Thread İbrahim Taşer
Hello, I would like to be a partner of your project. We are from Turkey. Is it possible to be in your project? And what kind of instutition or organization do you need in your project? If you need any information about us, please feel free to ask me. Kind Regards 2014-12-31 13:57 GMT+02:00